And now, a word from Neil deGrasse Tyson…
“Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson answering […]
Month: November 2011
Science Art: Rust Mite, Aceria anthocoptes, by Erbe, Pooley: USDA, ARS, EMU.
Click to embiggen This is a bug that, like Eeyore, eats thistles. Some call them “free living.” Others call them vagrants. Technically, I mean. [via]
Russian Mars probe crashing back to Earth.
Wired says we should think about staying indoors for a while, because the probe Russia sent to collect samples from the Martian moon isn’t going […]
Humans: The *sociable* ape?
That’s the idea behind a study by University of Oxford and the University of Auckland researchers in PhysOrg. The scientists found that our ability to […]
Antelope genus about to disappear.
National Geographic reports that an entire genus of African antelopes – represented by the hirola, last species in genus Beatragus – is about to follow […]
The professional prophet of Intel.
Scientific American interviews Brian David Johnson, Intel’s “future caster,” who combines science fiction with software and hardware design to predict what’s happening next: How can […]
Riding airships into orbit.
Discovery is looking up to a way to get satellites into orbit using balloons instead of rockets: …[T]he now-retired NASA space shuttle was the Hindenburg […]
Noise hurts. Why?
Science explores why the noise of nails on a chalkboard is so awful: As they will report next week at the Acoustical Society of America […]
Mayo Clinic stops aging.
Or, BBC says, at least the symptoms of aging, like wrinkles and cataracts. Mayo Clinic researchers may have found a fountain of youth: The study, […]
How Vikings found the sun.
The Telegraph finds the truth behind a navigational legend – a stone that Vikings used locate the sun on cloudy days: Now experiments have shown […]
Turning on the first tractor beams.
BBC reports on three ways scientists are bringing tractor beams into reality: The $100,000 (£63,000) award will be used to examine three laser-based approaches to […]
Who owns your face? (biometrics, meet property rights)
The Future Perfect blog chases down what it might mean once we use our faces online: One of the reoccurring conversations in the US that […]